Portal

Tonight it is not hard for me 
to understand how my ancestors 
looked at the sea and saw 
a portal to the otherworld: 
the water pearly blue, 
in places almost white, 
and the mist of the sun 
catching the shore in its thighs; 
the scent of the seaweeds, 
and the gold spun in the waves; 
all of it too ethereal and beautiful 
to not be of another world.